Commercial · Serif · Commercial Type
Publico
Publico is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $1,200, styles from $50, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Publico is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Christian Schwartz, Paul Barnes
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $1,200, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A serif that grew out of the 2005 Guardian redesign and was finished for Público in Lisbon, sharing the skeleton of the Guardian typefaces. Offered in text, headline and banner cuts.
Free alternatives to Publico
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Publico is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Merriweather webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Merriweather.
same classification
A sturdy editorial serif with similar news-text robustness; more slab-like in its serifs than Publico.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional editorial serif with optical sizes like Publico's text and headline cuts; crisper and less newsy.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Newsreader webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Newsreader.
same classification
An editorial serif with a range of optical sizes; softer than Publico.
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